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19 February 2014

Maybe I Need a New Title

I work as a pediatric PT. My kids come in all types of bodies . Some are tiny, some are much bigger than mine, some fully function, and some not so much. And the families are no different --- all different. One of my favorite things about my job is that every day is different and you never know what you'll find. Today was no exception. I asked a caregiver what I thought was a pretty standard question. The answer was not a standard response.

Me: "What is your goal for therapy? What do you want to see come out of (your kid's) time with me?"

Caregiver: "The doctor said that PT has worked miracles for some of her kids in the past. I want you to work a miracle."

Now..... I am not sure what the proper response is in this situation but allow me to elaborate on the options that were immediately floating through my head....

1. Well. Let me go grab my magic wand and fairy dust.

2. Watch me walk on water as I leave the room.

3. Did you bring your loaves and fishes?

4. Would you like some wine with your water?

5. Would you like a better dress to wear to the ball? How about a carriage made from a pumpkin?

6. Yep, that's my degree ... Doctor of Miracles.

7. Sure - my business card has my name with Miracle Worker for the title.

Quotes I Find Interesting

"Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile." -Albert Schweitzer

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed." -Baltasar Gracian

"Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived." -Anna Quindlen

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." -H.H. Williams

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid." -John Keats

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake." -Victor Hugo

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear." -Mark Twain

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man doesn't thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his though in clear form." -Albert Einstein

"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." -Ralph W. Sockman

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." -Mignon McLaughlin